Operations Manager, Rotating Equipment

The Operations Manager is expected to translate business goals into practical operating plans, establish clear priorities, and create accountability across the team.

This includes managing workload, balancing urgent customer needs with planned maintenance work, improving standard work processes, and ensuring supervisors and technicians have the information, tools, and support needed to perform successfully.

• Minimum of 7–10 years of experience in rotating equipment service, industrial maintenance, field service, repair operations, or related industrial operations.
• Minimum of 3–5 years of supervisory, operations management, project management, or team leadership experience.
• Strong working knowledge of rotating equipment such as pumps, compressors, turbines, gearboxes, motors, blowers, fans, and associated systems.
• Demonstrated understanding of safety programs, job hazard analysis, lockout/tagout, confined space, lifting and rigging, hot work, and customer site requirements.
• Experience managing schedules, labor utilization, job costs, productivity, quality, and customer expectations.
• Ability to read and interpret technical documentation, scopes of work, repair recommendations, drawings, specifications, and service reports.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, scheduling tools, ERP systems, work order systems, or other operations management platforms.
• Experience in refinery, petrochemical, chemical, power generation, pipeline, manufacturing, or heavy industrial environments.
• Knowledge of API, ANSI, ASME, ISO, OEM, and customer-specific rotating equipment standards.
• Lean, Six Sigma, PMP, NCCER, safety, reliability, or maintenance-related certifications.
• Experience supporting outage, turnaround, commissioning, startup, vibration, alignment, precision maintenance, or reliability improvement programs.
• Safety-first leadership and strong field execution discipline.
• Ability to lead teams in fast-paced, high-priority industrial service environments.
• Strong communication skills with technicians, customers, vendors, and senior leadership.
• Commercial awareness, cost control, and understanding of job profitability.
• Problem-solving skills with the ability to make timely decisions under pressure.
• Customer-focused mindset with a commitment to quality and responsiveness.
• Strong planning, organization, prioritization, and follow-through.
• Ability to coach, develop, and hold team members accountable.
• Maintain strong safety performance and ensure compliance with all company and customer safety requirements.
• Improve labor utilization, schedule adherence, job execution quality, and customer satisfaction.
• Reduce rework, delays, downtime, and avoidable job cost overruns.
• Develop supervisors and technicians through coaching, training, and clear performance expectations.
• Provide timely reporting on operational performance, risks, opportunities, and resource needs.
• Support growth of the rotating equipment service business through reliable execution and strong customer relationships.

This position may require work in office, shop, and customer field environments, including industrial plants, refineries, petrochemical facilities, power plants, pipeline facilities, and manufacturing sites.

The role may require travel, extended hours, weekend support, and emergency response availability based on business and customer needs.

Selected candidates must be able to complete the following physical functions including but not limited to climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, grasping, feeling, and other repetitive motions with or without a reasonable accommodation.

CAM Industrial Solutions is an equal opportunity employer, and we thrive on our differences for the benefit of our employees, our customers, and our community.

It is our policy to provide equal opportunities in all decisions related to hiring, training, and promoting regardless of race, religion, color, gender, disability, national origin, ancestry, age, military status, sexual orientation, marital status or any legally protected characteristic or class.